We must develop a global black economy built and run for us by us – Dr Brooks

Oru Leonard

Co founder and Managing Partner Brown Venture Group LLC Management USA, Dr Chris Brooks has said, “we must develop a global black economy built and run for us by us and only then can we achieve global black liberation”.

Chris who stated this in his keynote address delivered yesterday at the the Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit (NDIS), also expressed joy to be in Nigeria, explaining that he is biracial  tracing roots back to Nigeria on his mother’s side.

Speaking on the theme, Diaspora investment in emerging economies,
Dr Brooks stated that Nigeria was considered an emerging economy because it had some but not all of the characteristics of a developed market.
He stated that the world was moving towards an African era but like Nelson Mandela he believes that the world would not respect Africa and black people unless Nigeria earned that respect.

He further explained that even though Nigeria continued to dominate Africa and the world, with great power comes great responsibility.

His presentation was centered around defeating white supremacy and neocolonialism by fostering unity between Africans at home and Africans in diaspora in a concept he described as global black interdependence.

“The world understood the power of African unity and the way we move now would determine the trajectory of Africa’s growth in the next decade”, Dr Brooks concluded.